{"id":2770,"date":"2018-09-28T01:35:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T01:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2018-09-28T14:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T14:51:32","slug":"exploring-blue-floral-stones-in-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/09\/28\/exploring-blue-floral-stones-in-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Blue Floral Stones in Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nA large, shallow plastic tub or sand table<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Play sand\u2014the finer, the better<br \/>\n<\/span>Floral stones or beach glass (available at Hobby Lobby)<br \/>\nCraft sticks<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nThe feeling children get when digging, filling, and dumping containers of sand is both satisfying and relaxing at the same time. They can be engaged in sand play for hours at the beach. The sand table in our classroom, filled with beach sand, holds the children\u2019s interest almost as long.&nbsp; They enjoy running their fingers through the sand, burying their hands in it, sifting it, filling containers with it, dumping containers of it, and mixing water into it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, we took all the tools and containers out of our sand table, replaced them with blue floral stones and craft sticks, and watched to see what happened.&nbsp; At first, the children started retrieving all the blue stones and put them into piles.&nbsp; We challenged them to do something with the craft sticks.&nbsp; They \u201cdrew\u201d with them in the sand. Then, one child started using his stick as a scraper, smoothing sand throughout the sand table. One of the girls started laying her sticks on the sand and placed a few stones on top. This led others to start making \u201croads\u201d with their sticks, with more stones on top. This morphed into burying stones in the sand and using the craft sticks as diggers to find the stones. It was very interesting to observe what the children would do without pails and shovels as they\u2019re accustomed to.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A large, shallow plastic tub or sand table Play sand\u2014the finer, the better Floral stones or beach glass (available at Hobby Lobby) Craft sticks Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The feeling children get when digging, filling, and dumping containers of sand is both satisfying and relaxing at the same time. They can be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/09\/28\/exploring-blue-floral-stones-in-sand\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exploring Blue Floral Stones in Sand&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}